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26 de set. de 2006 · "Nightwood," Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" ("TLS"). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly ...
' Siri Hustvedt Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional.
Other articles where Nightwood is discussed: Djuna Barnes: ” Her second novel, Nightwood (1936), is her masterpiece, about the doomed homosexual and heterosexual loves of five extraordinary, even grotesque, people. Her fluent style in this work imitates Elizabethan and other archaic writing, and the chapters are disjunct in time and place; the net effect is of horror…
6 de dez. de 2015 · Nightwood by Djuna Barnes My rating: 5 of 5 stars …Felix was astonished to find that the most touching flowers laid on the altar he had raised to his imagination were placed there by the people of the underworld… —Nightwood There are so many novels I have not read that I don’t do a lot…
See Plot Diagram Summary Beginnings Most of the novel unfolds in Paris in the 1920s, but it begins in Vienna in the 19th century. Guido Volkbein, a Jewish man, pretends to be a Christian aristocrat, taking the title of baron.
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